Woman charged with neglect after 16-month-old left alone at Speedway motel

3:47 PM,
Dec. 7, 2012

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Speedway police have pressed charges against a mother who left her 16-month-old son alone in a Motel 6 earlier this week.

Talisha Evans, 32, told police she and her four children were staying at the motel, located on the 6300 block of Debonair Lane. She said she needed to pick up her two oldest kids from the bus stop around 4:20 p.m. Tuesday and brought one of her other kids with her. She left the 16-month-old asleep in the motel room, she told police, because she didn't want to wake him up.

Evans told officers she ran out of gas on the way back from the bus stop and stopped for fuel and picked up her ...